Since 2006 Werner Stocker, member of the administrative board of Swiss publisher “Schulthess Juristische Medien AG”, has been active in the executive committee of IPA....
London Book Fair 2020 has been cancelled. All IPA events that had been scheduled to take place at the fair have been cancelled..
...As Cairo International Book Fair starts today, one Egyptian Bookseller and Publishing House will not be attending. While Khaled Lotfy, co-founder of the Tanmia Bookshop...
On 24 December 2019, the Egyptian Military Court of Cassation, following 11 postponements, finally rejected Egyptian publisher Khaled Lotfy’s final possible appeal against his 5-year...
On 16 December 2019 the seventh list of books for the UN SDG Book Club were announced. The list of titles in all six official...
The second installment of IPA's reports on licensing practices in a global digital market for education and research focuses on educational publishing. It has been...
International Publishers Association (IPA) signs agreement with the UNESCO-affiliated Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLALC) to further...
Early bird registrations for the 33rd International Publishers Congress close on 31 December. Check out the comprehensive programme online and find out in our series...
Before Frankfurt Book Fair had even finished, IPA’s attention was drawn back to Geneva where WIPO was holding an International Conference on Copyright Limitations and...
IPA has opened the nominations process for the 2020 Prix Voltaire which will be announced at the 33rd International Publishers Congress in Lillehammer. The announcement...
On 4 November 2019 the sixth list of books for the UN SDG Book Club were announced. The list of titles in all six official...
The World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Publishers Circles initiative has had a successful first trial in Korea with a second round of the performance coaching programme...
On 28 October, the Italian accessible books foundations, Fondazione LIA, welcomed two new institutional members meaning the foundation now brings together all of the associations...
On Friday 8 November, economic and legal studies commissioned by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers and Booksellers Association) examining Germany’s fixed book price...
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay confirmed the Georgian Capital will follow this Sharjah, UAE and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as UNESCO World Book Capital 2021.
...On Friday 4 October, during their General Assemblies, WIPO organised a session on Empowering Women in the Publishing Industry featuring the IPA’s Diversity and Inclusion...
Airline to bring international publishers closer through global events.
...IPA will publish a series of publications around the licensing practices in a global digital market for education and research. This first chapter looks at...
Five innovative African projects have each won a $20,000 grant, while a library restoration initiative is to receive $50,000,and $20,000 will be allocated to Rural...
The two-day seminar organised in partnership between the International Publishers Association (IPA), Emirates Publishers Association (EPA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Education...
The 33rd International Publishers Congress will take place from 28-30 May 2020 in Lillehammer Norway. Find out more about what promises to be a special...
Fathi Al Biss, President of the Union of Jordanian Publishers and Hugo Setzer, President of the International Publishers Association brought the curtain down after two...
On 26 September WIPO’s Accessible Books Consortium welcomed Hachette Livre as the 100th Signatory to the ABC Charter for Accessible Publishing marking an important milestone...
IPA is holding a full schedule of Committee meetings as well as open and public events around the 33rd International Publishers Congress in Lillehammer, freedom...
At the beginning of September, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino spoke at a Symposium on Education Publishing in Jakarta during the Indonesia International Book Fair.
...When the names and titles of the Commissioners forming the team of President-elect Ursula von der Leyen were finally announced, most of the observers including...
WIPO’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) met on September 2-4, 2019. On the agenda were several important updates about enforcement strategies adopted by WIPO Member...
Brazil’s State Secretariat for Culture held a public consultation to assess the need to review the Brazilian Copyright Act 1998. The consultation, which closed on...
On 17 September 2019 the fifth list of books for the UN SDG Book Club were announced. The list of titles in all six official...
The French Publishers Association (SNE) initiative “La rentrée littéraire pour tous » successfully saw 82 publishers make 425 titles available in accessible format upon their release...
Following legislative change in the European Union (EU) on 2 October 2018, EU Member States continue to reduce VAT rates for eBooks and audiobooks, often...
The International Publishers Association (IPA), in collaboration with the Union of Jordanian Publishers (UJP), has announced that its upcoming regional conference will be held under...
IPA conducts a number of committee meetings, open meetings and its General Assembly during Frankfurt Book Fair.
...The IPA confirms its freedom to publish programme for Frankfurt Book Fair with an open Freedom to Publish Committee meeting and a seminar hosted by...
IPA President Hugo Setzer attended the Beijing International Book Fair from 21-23 August holding several high-level meetings.
...IPA President Hugo Setzer attended the Lima International Book Fair from 22-25 July, taking part in discussions around VAT and elivering a keynote on the...
The trade war between the US and China risks severely impacting the publishing industry, with the Association of American Publishers (AAP) expressing its concern and...
Following legislative change in the European Union (EU) on 2 October 2018, EU Member States can align the VAT rates for eBooks and audiobooks with...
On Wednesday 26 June a group met at the National Library in Auckland, New Zealand to discuss the ins and outs of working with EPUB3....
On 9 August 2019 the fourth list of books for the UN SDG Book Club were announced. The list of titles in all six official...
Mauritanian blogger, Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed Mkhaitir, was freed on 30 July following nearly two years of effective house arrest and 6 year after his...
The third and final World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) regional seminar took place on 4-5 July. IPA President, Hugo Setzer and Secretary General José Borghino...
On June 12-13, IPA brought a strong delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) regional seminar in Nairobi to discuss copyright related issues for...
On 14-15 June 2019 the second edition of the IPA’s African Seminar series was a huge success in Nairobi with publishing professionals and policy makers...
Publishing industry statistics for a number of markets have been published over the last month including the USA, the UK, France and a special report...